And another one -
"You sexy thing" - up until very recently, I was singing the opening as "I've been leaving my car / where you from / you sexy thing "
i thought it was 'the street car line' !!!!
anyone know the real words coz my 'mummy told me' wrong obviously.
fergus? ask them to play it in the library then you could type the lyrics live for us while you much on dem cookies.
:->
the advert was for TDK tapes I believe, sound quality helping you hear lyrics more clearly. It won an award.
The soundtrack to Vitalite's ad was a re written version of the song but the cards with the wrong words on were for tapes (casette tapes).
This gets worse..
I am becoming obsessed with finding out about this song.....it appears, that its not the Belle Stars at all....They did a song called "Iko Iko", which is an old "hand clapping, skipping"
song, and another called "Sign of the times" - I can find no
mention anywhere of them doing anything called "clap hands"
Bugger.
drove me mad too so a search on the net found this. Don't think it's the original though. I thought it was older than 1982.
The Clapping Song
Pia Zadora
3, 6, 9
The goose drank wine
The monkey chew tobacco on the streetcar line
The line broke, the monkey got choked
And they all went to heaven in a little rowboat
Clap Pat - Clap Pat - Clap Pat - Clap Slap
Clap Pat! Clap your hand...
Pat it on your partner’s hand... right hand
Clap Pat! Clap your hand...
Cross it with your left arm
Pat your partner’s left palm
Clap Pat! Clap your hand...
Pat your partner’s right palm
Clap Slap! Clap your hand...
Slap your thigh and sing a little song
My mama told me if I was goody
That she would buy me a rubber dolly
My Aunty told her, I kissed a soldier
Now she won't buy me a rubber dolly
3, 6, 9
The goose drank wine
The monkey chew tobacco on the streetcar line
The line broke, the monkey got choked
And they all went to heaven in a little rowboat
Clap Clap!
Clap your hands and prepare to Pat
Take your right arm
Pat your partner’s palm with your right palm
Take your hand back and clap
Clap!
Take your right arm
Cross your right arm with your partner's left arm
Pat your partner’s left palm with your left palm
Now back with a clap
Take the pats of your palms and slap your thighs
And watch the fun materialize
As you sing this little song
1982
Thanks for that Ely! That had really been bugging me. BUT - do you remember all the misheard lyrics in the orginal TDK ad?!! Still, thank you for putting that one to rest!
I have wonderful memories of my Grandmother (who was rather well to do)
dancing around her conservatory singing along to Abba's supertrooper....
Superbird, superbird stripes are gonna blind you!!
My God! I've got the bloody Belle Stars in my head again. Two years it's taken to be rid of that.
How about "Hey there you with the sad face, come up to my place and live it up" ?
Without Googling, can anyone remember the band and next line? I actually do know the answer to this one.
And absolute Eighties classic "My blood runs cold / my memory has just been sold"
Cheers, Liana
Now I'm going to go home tonight and sing the correct lyrics at my kids and scare the hell out of them. At last they'll realise what a cool Dad they've got. Somehow I don't think so.
I was so far off the mark with the Nirvana thing how come you could even tell what I was talking about? What's the song called?
I knew it was a LINE. How could a lion break ? Even if it could, how would that choke a monkey ? (Or indeed spank a chicken)
Sorry to memetically infect everyone with dreadful pop.
Now, "We're all going on a summer holiday / If you wanna join you can / we're going to London / and New York City / And we'll take a little piece of Amsterdam"
Just for Andrea and Mandy. The singers have popped out of my head, but I'll know it when someone says it. It was circa Live Aid.
in the last piece I wrote I mentioned the wombles as in the anarchy UK faction but .... ever since .... I can't get "underground, overground, womble-ing free" out of my mind.
just thought I would infect you all with the same inanity!
HAHAHAHA
Well researched Stormy but, as far as I can remember, the original was way before '82 and the advent of Pia...same lyrics (?) though.
Bugger, I'll have to look it up meself, now...
that's what I reckon too Andrea... I can vaguely remember singing a rude version of it at school and that was back in *coughs loudly* but I think the lyrics are the same.
I reckon it was around in the late sixties.
Yep, about the time I had in mind too, Stormy (even seem to remember dirty version vaguely as well).
Just tried looking it up, but too wasted (and not, Fish, from too much sloe gin intake), have to give it another go tomorrow...must getta life, too...
At risk of appearing to be Paul Gambaccini in drag..
The lyrics are from a song called "Smells like teen spirit"
Teen spirit is actually a deoderant sold in America - I guess a bit like Impulse is in Britain. I was always under the impression that Teen Spirit was something like babycham (dunno why)
Liana The Completely Useless Music Trivia Guru
Mark the Editor, who is in rehab for a week so I will have to post for him, always thought Lou Reed had come up with another of his silly fictitious characters in The Velvet Underground's song, Some Kinda Love, with the line "Monkey Rita told Tom."
Top work from the Coastal Contingent. The band were Mental As Anything...
How about 'they play it on the stereo, and on the radio, you hear it at the disco"
Me Da's a big Chris Montez fan (well, he's old)
he's always singin:
Hey baby won't you take a chance-
put your hands down my underpants-
let's dance-
Me Ma said she did once,
but only when they were on the washin line.
She said it was better than when me Da's got them on.
At least there was a stiff breeze in them.
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